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Welcome to the progress update for the period 8 to 14 October, in what has proven the single busiest week for transcription since the week ending 14 January 2011.

2,005 manuscripts have now been transcribed by volunteers, up 65 on this time last week. Of these, 1,756 (87%) are now complete and locked, up 67 on last week.

We are delighted to say that we have reached the landmark of having our 2,000th transcribed manuscript! Volunteers have now transcribed an estimated 500,000 words (a conservative estimate); this is a quite staggering volume of work, made all the more remarkable if the TEI-XML markup and Bentham’s frequently indecipherable handwriting are taken into account.